Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 2 | The crash above their heads had come when it was lifted bodily and flung across the deck . |
| 3 | Figures from the Metropolitan Police show that , in cases where bail was granted although the police had recommended that it be opposed , the offending rate on bail was 18 per cent. , compared with 9 per cent . |
| 4 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |
| 5 | But there could never be any proof on the matter , and if she had died after it was stolen , then surely the money would have to be credited to her estate , would it not ? |
| 6 | The sun had disappeared and it was beginning to rain again . |
| 7 | Pete had known that it was coming — the only question had been , when ? |
| 8 | On Aug. 9 the Israeli Justice Ministry had announced that it was preparing an amendment to the 1986 law outlawing contacts with the PLO . |
| 9 | On April 26 the Revolution Command Council ( RCC ) had announced that it was disbanding the Popular Army . |
| 10 | On Aug. 31 the World Food Programme , the main co-ordinator of the UN relief effort in Somalia , had announced that it was to double the volume of UN food aid from the original 68,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes . |
| 11 | On April 3 the French government had announced that it was committing F4,000 million in new capital over two years to the loss-making computer concern Groupe Bull — which was 93 per cent state-owned — and making a F2,700 million contribution to its research budget over four years . |
| 12 | At first he had assumed that it was taking much longer than the boy had estimated or that his work on the Project was taking up his time , but this explained it all . |
| 13 | By noon the weather had worsened and it was snowing once more . |
| 14 | Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line . |
| 15 | By 1985 Greenpeace was better organised and French intelligence had learned that it was planning to send out to Moruroa its larger 42-ton Rainbow Warrior , together with the Vega , and then to launch a number of small boats in which its members would try to elude the French Navy and penetrate the test area . |
| 16 | He says that the police were not chasing the car , but they had spotted that it was stolen . |
| 17 | Prior to joining Guinness , he was group managing director of Dunhill Holdings PLC , a position he had held since it was formed in 1981 . |
| 18 | The PAC also expressed its discontent at the name of CODESA — it had proposed " conference for a constituent assembly " — and the venue — it had urged that it be held at a " neutral " venue , outside South Africa . |
| 19 | Before the party , she had suggested that it be delayed . |